, 1887-11-01
HUNTING A FIGHT.
A Gang of Sports Are Led a Wild
Goose Chase.
They Give Graphic Accounts of
An Imaginary "Scrap."
Realistic Description of the Con,
test by a Truthful Reporter.

Fully ten days ago it was whispered
about in select circles that a mill with
the raw 'uns' would occur at the Camp
stool ranch, nine miles southeast of Chey-
enne, between two graders for 800 a
side.
Newspaper men were to be kept in
ignorance Of the event for fear they would
d%enounce the participators in a brutal
sport, but a LEADER reporter was among
the first to learn Of the proposed contest,
but instead of riding about the country in
search of Sullivan's camp he remained at
home and attended church, trusting to his
usual good fortune to obtain an account of
the fight should it occur and be worthy of
mention.
Nearly every available livery rig in
town was engaged by noon Sunday to
carry admirers of ring contests out about
ten miles for a little drive" as the gen.
tlemen explained it to owners of the ami
mails and vehicles, while the lion
carry-all was loaded to the guards by an
enthusiastic crowd.
The return of the spectators was anxi-
ously awaited by expectaut sports unable
to attend, and when they did
not return until darkness had fallen it was
freely predicted that the fight had been
a dandy"
The returning admirers of the athletic
were greeted with cheers and questions as
to the nature and victor of the contest,
which it was understood was to occur be-
tween one Mike and Philip. a Hibernian
and Swede.
Mike knocked him out in the fifteenth
round" said Ed. Cook to a LEADER re
porter as be alighted from a carriage in
front of the Gold Room, and winked at
Ed. Page and Dick Ryan, his COM
p%anions. "You can characterize it as
n of the most brutal and hotly contested
fights on record. Up to the last round
each was a repetition of the former. The
men were well scienced and had evidently
been carefully trained for the battle.
Mike was a trif1e the heavier, but this
handicap OIL the subject of King Oscar
was Offset by the fact that the latter was
a glutton for punishment. If you wish to
publish an accurate account of the great
contest just reproduce the Police Gazette's
eport of the Dempsey-Ma rine fight some
eighteen months ago. That will fit it to
a nicely"
MIR. Cooks terse description of the mill
was substantiated by both Page and Ryan,
who graphically added such remarks as
they believed the narrator had omitted.
JOS. Pearse, of the well-known drug
firm of Pearse & McGill, acted jointly
with Harry Hynds as referee and time
keeper, according to Mr.. Page. He was
enthusiastic and said, among other things:
1T was a rafting good mill. The men
stripped to the buff and went at like bull
dogs. They were not very scientific, but
did not lack ip nerve, wind or appetite
for punishment. Up to the tenth round
it was a~nybody's fight, but after that
hOnors wore easy for Mike. We had
considerable trouble in arranging the fight
after arriving, but induced the men to
enter the ring by raising a purse and tell
ing each the other called him a coward. [
tell you it was a fine days sport" This
account was corroborated by AL. Roedel,
who said that the same men would fight
again next Sunday.
WAS it a knock out, or did one of the
men quit inquired the sporting editor
as he met Harry Hynds. "A clean
knock out, and as pretty a fight as ever
took place in a ring. 1 tell you fifteen
rounds of Queensbury beats a circus any
time"
The last man to be interviewed was a
modest Young man who is a lineal de-
scendant Of George Washington, or a
president ruling Immediately after the
father of his country. His report, which
Is vouched for by The LEADER as official,
Is as follows:
I'VE found Sullivan's camp after driv-
ing about fifteen miles. One of the party
entered a tent and awakening the occu.
pant brought him outside. He shouted
in surly tones, What do you mugs
wantP The spokesman informed him
that we were looking for the fight.
We'll, if any Of you fellows want to fight,
hop down here and peel FOUR linen. |